Sober Quotes - Page 10

• I think I'm a sober person. I think the press tries to make you into something a little bit different. In my case, a little bit of a wild man. I'm not. I'm actually not. I'm a very sober person.

  Donald Trump

  Men, Thinking, Trying

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I knew if I got loaded I was going away for a while. People would say, Oh, you're just sober because you're on probation.

  Charlie Sheen

  People, Going Away, Probation

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• Art uses many different styles, but his voice is very consistent. He's always concise and clever and funny. That's true of somebody like Chris Ware, who has an emotional quality to his work - but it's boiled down and it's very sober and spare. Each word has great weight. Comics are not just pictures, but it is graphic design in the sense that they are composed and architected in a specific way.

  Francoise Mouly

  Art, Clever, Emotional

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them. They have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne. Americans do not need to drink to inspire them to do anything, though they do sometimes, I think, need a little for the deeper and more delicate purpose of teaching them how to do nothing.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Teaching, Wine, Beer

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• The clouds that gather round the setting sun, Do take a sober colouring from an eye, That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality.

  William Wordsworth

  Death, Eye, Men

  William Wordsworth (1837). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...”, p.389

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• Love is a great thing...which alone maketh every burden light.. Love is watchful, and while sleeping, still keeps watch; though fatigued, it is not weary; though pressed, it is not forced. Love is sincere, gentle, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, and manly. Love is humble and upright, not weak, not fickle, nor intent on vain things; sober chaste, steadfast, quiet, and guarded in all the senses.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Marriage, Strong, Humble

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• If you ask me if I think I will be sober in 24 hours time I can say yes, but in two years I can't tell you. I could be dead.

  Daniel Baldwin

  Thinking, Years, Two

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Coffee, the sober drink, the mighty nourishment of the brain, which unlike other spirits, heightens purity and lucidity; coffee, which clears the clouds of the imagination and their gloomy weight; which illuminates the reality of things suddenly with the flush of truth.

  Jules Michelet

  Coffee, Reality, Clouds

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• And when that bad news washes over you and that pain sponges in, I just hope you feel like you've always got two choices.  One, you can swirl and twirl and gloom and doom forever.  Or two, you can grieve, and then face the future with newly sober eyes.

  Neil Pasricha

  Pain, Eye, Grieving

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• You know the stories of a woman saying to Churchill, 'Sir, you're drunk,' and he said to her, 'And you're ugly, but in the morning I'll be sober.' I was really excited to do that scene, but I did get slapped.

  Thomas Howes

  Morning, Drunk, Stories

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• While thinking when sober, our success at reaching our goals by using the First Baltic Front troops, the Memel operation, it can't be disregarded, that the troops not only honorably accomplished their powerful strategic operation, but also an infusion of victory for the Soviet armed forces and an entrance into the final stages of the war.

  Ivan Bagramyan

  Powerful, War, Thinking

  "A Photo Album About A Soviet Marshal". Book by Ivan Bagramyan, 1987.

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• Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per cent - into their otherwise sober documents.

  John Crowe Ransom

  Excess, Half, Ransom

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• Luther deters me from solitariness; but he does not mean from a sober solitude that rallies our scattered strengths and prepares us against any new encounter from without.

  Francis Atterbury

  Mean, Solitude, Encounters

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• Some things will not bear much zeal; and the more earnest we are about them, the less we recommend ourselves to the approbation of sober and considerate men.

  John Tillotson

  Men, Bears, Considerate

  John Tillotson (1757). “The Works of the Most Reverend John Tillotson, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury: In Twelve Volumes, Containing 254 Sermons and Discourses on Several Occassions; Together with the Rule of Faith; Prayers Composed by Him for His Own Life; a Discourse to His Servants Before the Sacrament; and a Form of Prayer Composed by Him for the Use of King William”, p.48

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• No man can expect to find a friend without faults; nor can he propose himself to be so to another. Without reciprocal mildness and temperance there can be no continuance of friendship. Every man will have something to do for his friend, and something to bear with in him. The sober man only can do the first; and for the latter, patience is requisite. It is better for a man to depend on himself, than to be annoyed with either a madman or a fool.

  Owen Feltham

  Friends, Men, Annoyed

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• Alcohol may also persuade us that we have found the truth about life, a comforting experience rarely available in the sober hour.

  Joan Acocella

  Drinking, Alcohol, Comforting

  "A Few Too Many" by Joan Acocella, www.newyorker.com. May 26, 2008.

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• I prefer being totally sober myself.

  Aziz Ansari

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• Comprehensive, judicious, evenhanded, original. An Unfinished Life has the sober judgment and nuanced accuracy that make it ring true in all the controversial and tricky parts.

  Jack Newfield

  Judgment, Controversial, Unfinished

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• I never thought I could write anything or do a show sober, ever. But I did the Black Sabbath shows sober, and it was so much better fun for me, and everybody.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Fun, Writing, Black

  Source: www.nola.com

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• Come landlord fill a flowing bowl until it does run over,
  Tonight we will all merry be--tomorrow we'll get sober.

  John William Fletcher

  Running, Drinking, Tonight

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• There is nothing in nature quite so joyful as the very young and silly lamb - odd that it should develop into that dull and sober animal the sheep.

  Esther Meynell

  Silly, Animal, Sheep

  Esther Meynell (1940). “A Woman Talking”, London, Chapman & Hall [1940.]

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• I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.

  Irwin Shaw

  Writing, Glasses, Ideas

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• I guess we all have a bad night now and then and really screw up. I listened to our earlier stuff and we screwed up a lot. But at least now that we are sober, when we screw up it's for real.

  Joe Perry

  Real, Night, Screw Ups

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• No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.

  Samuel Smiles

  Law, Idle, Industrious

  Samuel Smiles (2009). “Self-Help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.5, The Floating Press

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• Luxurious lobster-nights, farewell, For sober, studious days!

  Alexander Pope

  Farewell, Night, Luxury

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1866). “Poetical Works”, p.203

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